ourly.net

What It Is

Ourly is a work management and invoicing SaaS for service professionals, including plumbers, repair technicians, painters, designers, freelancers, developers, as well as HVAC technicians and electricians. Its core positioning is to bring quotes, jobs, invoices, and payments into one platform, helping small service teams reduce the need to switch between documents, spreadsheets, and multiple tools.

Core Features and Collaboration

Based on the main description, Ourly’s core modules include quotes, job/task management, professional invoices, payment collection, a business dashboard, and customer history management. Users can view each job’s status, assignee, and next steps, making it suitable for tracking service requests, field tasks, unpaid invoices, and customer communication records. The dashboard can display revenue, outstanding invoices, and upcoming jobs, helping small teams stay on top of cash flow and scheduling.

Pricing and Payments

The pricing information is fairly simple: Ourly supports getting started for free and charges a 1% platform fee. The main content does not disclose whether there are paid plans, feature limitations, seat-based pricing, or an enterprise edition. For payments, it explicitly supports collecting payments via Stripe, which is convenient for markets such as North America where Stripe is widely available. However, whether users in mainland China can smoothly open an account and receive payments depends on Stripe’s regional support and should be evaluated separately.

Pros and Cons

The advantages are its focused use case and closed-loop workflow around quotes, job dispatch, invoicing, and payment collection for service businesses. The ability to start for free lowers the barrier to trial, and the product aims to replace Word documents, Google Sheets, and paper records. The downside is the lack of public information: there is no clear explanation of data security and compliance, role permissions, mobile apps, API availability, self-hosting, or third-party integration ecosystem. Apart from Stripe, there also does not appear to be much information on integrations with other payment or accounting systems.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Ourly is better suited to solo service providers, freelancers, and small field service teams that want to improve the professionalism of their quotes and invoices while centrally tracking customers and job progress. For companies that need complex work order scheduling, multi-level permissions, financial system integrations, or localized payment options, the currently disclosed information is insufficient and further hands-on testing is needed. Access from China is not mentioned in the main content, so its availability is unknown. At the same time, Stripe, overseas SaaS payments, and local invoicing compliance may become major adoption barriers for Chinese users.